Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution - Group of International Communists, Hermann Lueer (ed.)

Objective The development of capitalism is leading to increasingly serious crises, reflected in ever-increasing unemployment and an ever-deeper disruption of the production system, leaving millions of workers out of production and starving to death. At the same time, the contradictions between the different nations are increasing, as a result of which the economic war leads to a new world war. Increasing impoverishment and growing insecurity of existence force the working class to begin the struggle for the communist mode of production. In this struggle, the Group of International Communists encourages the workers to take over the management and administration of production and distribution themselves in accordance with generally adopted social rules to realize the Association of Free and Equal Producers. The GIC sees the essential progress of the workers' movement in the development of workers' self-confidence. Therefore, it confronts the leading politics of the parliamentary parties and the trade union movement with the slogan: All power to the workers' councils. Production in the hands of the enterprise organizations GIC FOREWORD BY THE EDITOR ____________ 8 FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION ____ 12 FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION __ 13 1. THE STARTING POINTS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNIST PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION__________________________ 17 2. THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC "REVISION" OF MARXISM ___________________________ 27 3. THE UNIT OF ACCOUNT IN COMMUNISM __________________________ 55 4. PROGRESS IN THE FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM _____________________ 67 5. LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM ____________ 84 6. THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION PROCESS IN GENERAL ___________________________ 101 7. THE COMMUNIST PRODUCTION _______ 104 8. THE SOCIALLY AVERAGE WORKING HOUR AS THE BASIS OF PRODUCTION! _ 123 9. THE SOCIAL AVERAGE WORKING HOUR AS THE BASIS FOR CONSUMPTION ______ 139 10. THE GENERAL SOCIAL WORK __________ 159 11. THE ACCOUNTING AS AN IDEATIONAL SUMMARY OF THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION PROCESS _______________ 184 12. THE ABOLITION OF THE MARKET _____ 193 13. THE EXPANSION OF PRODUCTION _____ 214 14. THE CONTROL OF THE OPERATING LIFE ________________________________________ 228 15. THE INTRODUCTION OF COMMUNISM IN AGRICULTURE ______________________ 257 16. THE ECONOMIC DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT _________________________ 273 17. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS ______________ 277 APPENDIX _____________________________ 290 LITERATURE __________________________ 301